Coding theory course?

[sfeng]

Would it be useful to take a course that teaches algebra, coding theory and cryptography?
Also, would it be better to take a course on stochastic processes or time series/forecasting or both?


Thanks!

 

[Daniel Duffy]

algebra, coding theory and cryptography?

What's "coding theory"?

 

[bigbadwolf]

algebra, coding theory and cryptography?

What's "coding theory"?

Error-correcting codes, ideas of compression, transmission, and entropy. Development of the work of Shannon, Hamming, and Huffman. Comes in handy in part of "data science."

 

[sfeng]

Thanks for the reply! Also do you think I should take both stochastic processes AND timeseries/forecasting? Or would one out of the two be enough?